When trying to research artists for the Grid Art Task, I found it challenging to get my ‘search’ right and couldn’t really find what I was looking for. So I decided to use ChatGPT to find some artists for me, something I have done before when I’m looking for specific art styles but can’t quite find the proper wording for it. I asked it to find me both physical and digital artists (using p5.js or other programs) that make use of grids and patterns in their art. I also gave it the example of Piet Mondrian’s work to help it know what I was looking for. It gave me many artists that matched what I was looking for much better than my own search on Google. I then went through all the artists, saving the ones I liked the most and then researched them on a deeper level by myself without the help of any AI.
Even after completing my research I still felt a bit lost on what to create with my grid. Instead of sketching out my design like I had planned to do, I decided to just start experimenting with some of the techniques and looks I found in my research. I did this so I would get out of the ‘blank canvas syndrome’ I found myself in and so that I could practice coding in p5.js. I ended up with three different products from my experimentation. (https://github.com/gracemartin29/Grid-Art-Task-Experimentaion-.git)
The main thing I wanted to try out was making the grid-interactive which I did in my two heart experiments. The first changes a heart into a cross when the mouse presses down on it, and the second changes the size of the heart depending on the position of the mouse. I managed to make the first heart grid by myself with the help of p5.js references and some sample code on the VLE. In the second heart grid I was trying to recreate the effect I saw in my research, (p5.js Web Editor | circle-drawing-grid). The artist used the radius value of the circles to adjust their size, but my heart shapes were more complicated than the circles, so I couldn’t quite use the same technique that the artist used. I tried out some different techniques by myself, but in the end, I needed some help from phind to get it how I wanted it.